Survivors: A Walking Dead Story
Chapter 1: the beginning
Connor jolted up in bed and almost fell out onto the floor. A series of bloodcurdling screams filled the air. He rubbed his eyes and slowly climbed out of his University Bed.
"what the hell was that" said Connor. Connor let out a huge yawn as he made his way to the door. He heard more screams coming and started to become worried. He quickly threw open his dorm room door and peered out into the hallway. Students were screaming and yelling, while sprinting down the halls. He caught one of the students he knew. His name was Callum, a tall youngster with black hair.
"Callum what the fuck is going on man?" asked Connor.
"some crazy shit is going on you need to run" said Callum, his voice was filled with fear.
Connor let out another yawn.
"yeah okay run where?" asked Connor.
"anywhere just not fucking here" said Callum as he continued his way down the hall. Connor returned to his dorm and decided to get dressed. Connor was a student at North Carolina State University. He was in his second year. He went to his wardrobe and fished out a pair of jeans and a long sleeve black shirt. He quickly got dressed and put on a pair of grey trainers. Connor looked at himself in the mirror he was short guy at 5 foot 7, he had curly ginger hair, with brown eyes and spots on his face from his eczema. Suddenly a banging noise came from his door.
"was that Callum?" said Connor. He walked forwards and opened the door, there was no-one there. He stepped out and saw someone shambling down the hall with his back to him.
"hey buddy, do you know what's going on?" asked Connor.
The shambling figure slowly turned to face him. The sight of the figure face made Connor's stomach go weak.
"what the fuck" said Connor. The guy had lost his nose, like it had been bitten off, a large chunk of his cheek was also missing. The wounded man slowly walked towards him his arms stretched out.
"what happened to you" said Connor slowly backing away into his dorm room. The guy was getting closer, he was just a few feet away.
"you need to call a nurse or something, hang on I'll call the police" said Connor. He tried to shut his door, but the guy was in the way, his body weight kept the door open as it tried to squeeze through. Eventually the guy succeeded and entered the room. The guy grabbed hold of Connor and the two fell backwards on the floor.
"get off me, get off me" said Connor. He tried to push the thing off, but it was strong, it bared its teeth and tried to push down on his throat.
"fuck, fuck, fuck" said Connor. He looked to his left and saw a shoe. He reached out a hand and grabbed the shoe. He swung as hard as he could, the shoe just bounced off the man's skull. The man barely moved from the blow.
"shit" said Connor. He tried again, nothing. He needed something stronger. The thing was getting closer to his throat.
"god get this fucking thing off someone help" said Connor.
Suddenly the creature fell off him as a loud thump could be heard. Connor wasted no time and sprinted for the door bumping into someone and knocking them over.
"watch it" said a female voice.
"Sorry" said Connor he pulled himself and the other person back up to their feet. He recognised the person. It was Bethany a girl who lived a few doors down.
"we got to get out of here" said Connor. The creature started to rise back up to its feet. The two left the room and sprinted down the hallway.
"what did you use to save me by the way?" asked Connor.
Bethany lifted a heavy book up to show him.
"nice" said Connor.
"it was the first thing I saw" said Bethany.
"thanks for the save by the way" said Connor.
"don't worry about it" said Bethany.
The two youths continued to run down the winding hallways, looking for a door to the outside. Suddenly Connor spotted a Fire Exit.
"over here" he called out.
The two ran towards the door and Connor shoved it open. The exit lead them out to a courtyard. The sunlight shone bright in their eyes. Connor raised an arm to shield himself. When his vision he could see the destruction. Dozens of dead bodies were left strewn around the place. Dried blood stained the grounds. There were at least 10 of those things like he saw before wandering about chasing students as they desperately looked for shelter.
"Jesus fucking Christ" said Connor. He turned to face Bethany. "do you have any clue what's going on" said Connor.
"not one clue, whatever it is, it's bad, very bad" said Bethany. A couple of the slow-moving creatures spotted them and made their way towards them.
"maybe we should head back inside" said Bethany.
"maybe we should" said Connor. The two hastily returned to the relative safety of indoors.
"there has to be other people" said Bethany.
"let's go find them" said Connor.
The two of them spend the next 15 minutes searching every hallway trying to find others. Their search turned up nothing. As they turned a corner, they got the shock of their life. They just walked right into a dozen of those things. The creatures all moved towards them.
"run" said Connor. The two ran down the way they came but their path was blocked as a few more of those things came trudging out from a door. They skidded to a halt and ran down a third hallway they didn't check before.
"keep running" said Bethany. Connor looked up and saw the cafeteria ahead.
"there in the cafeteria" said Connor. Connor ran into the door with all his might, the door didn't budge instead Connor bounced right off it and fell to the floor.
"shit my shoulder" said Connor. His shoulder would be bruised for sure.
"the doors never locked" said Bethany. They turned and saw the creature catching up to them.
The two of them desperately tried to push the door open.
"come on push with everything you got" said Connor. The two used all their strength but the door wasn't budging.
"come on you bitch, open" said Connor. The creatures were no more than 15 feet away now. Suddenly a loud scraping sound could be heard on the other side of the door. The cafeteria door opened, and a loud voice could be heard.
"get in" said the voice.
The two quickly dived into the room as the door was quickly shut. Two large tables were placed back in front of the door keeping it shut.
"well that's why I couldn't open it" said Connor. He stood up rubbing his shoulder and looking around to see who else was here. He saw two other boys one was Callum and one girl.
The guy who opened the door spoke.
"I'm Ben, there's Callum and Morgan, and that's Alannah" said Ben.
"I'm Connor this is Bethany" said Connor pointing towards Bethany. "hey guys" said Connor waving to the others, Connor studied them all. Callum was tall and skinny, Morgan was shorter than him but not much he was about 5 foot 6 he had black hair and a black beard and side burs to match. The girl Alannah stood next to Morgan, she was about Connor's height, had matching ginger hair and wore purple glasses. The other guy Ben was very tall had to be at least 6"4, he was also very big, clearly had a lot of muscle, black hair and brown eyes.
"do any of you guys have any idea what the hell is going on" said Connor.
They all shook their heads.
"great" said Connor.
"I have an idea" said Callum.
He quickly pulled his phone out from his pocket.
"we can check the news see if there's anything there" said Callum.
He pulled up the news and saw a broadcast.
"this message will be on repeat. An unknown infection has swept the USA. Residents are to make sure they have something to defend themselves. People are becoming infected. The infected have a drive to eat any living thing they see. Bites or scratches must be cleaned and the individual isolated from the others. Any bites or scratches will lead to the person becoming an infected themselves. The only way we have seen to stop the infected is to damage the brain of the infected. Anything else won't stop it. This broadcast will repeat in five minutes" said a presenter.
"oh fuck" said Callum as he clicked off the broadcast.
"this infection is everywhere, I got to get home and check on my family" said Morgan.
"me too" said Connor.
"we all do" said Ben.
"we can't stay in this cafeteria" said Bethany.
"does anybody here drive" said Connor.
Ben raised his hand.
"I do my car isn't too far, but I didn't bring my keys" said Ben.
"okay we should arm ourselves like the broadcast said" said Connor.
"the kitchen we can get some knives" said Morgan.
The group made their way towards the kitchen, the door was locked.
"step back" said Ben.
Ben stepped forward and gave the door a heavy kick, the door flung open by the force of his kick.
"your paying for that" said Callum with a grin.
"ha ha" said Ben.
The group entered the kitchen and quickly searched for weapons. Connor opened a draw revealing kitchen knife's.
"nice, got some over here" said Connor. Connor picked up the knife's and handed them to others one by one. Eventually they all had kitchen knife's in their hands. Ben managed to find a meat cleaver.
"alright first thing's first we need to find Ben's keys" said Connor. "lead the way Ben" said Connor.
The group returned to the cafeteria and pushed the table out of the way of the door.
"you guys all ready" said Ben.
"yeah" they all said together. Ben pulled the door open and they all walked out into the hallway. The infected had mostly wandered off and only a few were left. Connor approached one and readied his knife. Suddenly he felt a feeling overwhelm his body. He could kill it, it was still a person. The creature grabbed him and tried to bite him. He held the knife just in front of its face.
"stab it" said Ben.
Connor closed his eyes and thrust the knife forward. A squelch was heard. Connor opened his eyes to see the knife embedded in the creatures face, right through the eye. He pulled the knife out and threw up.
"oh god" said Connor.
Bethany patted him on the back.
"it will be okay" said Bethany. The other infected noticed them and began to make their way towards them. Ben swung his cleaver with great force wedging the blade deep into the creatures head. He kicked the creature and pulled the cleaver out. Two down two to go. Morgan stepped forward and due to his height, he had to get quite close. He jabbed his knife forward and stabbed the third infected through its forehead. With that there was one. Bethany handled the last one by stepping forward and plunging the knife into the side of its head.
"damn that was hard" said Bethany.
"no time to waste, let's go" said Ben. The group took off leaving the bodies behind. After 5 minutes of running they made it to Ben's dorm room. Connor's dorm was just around the corner.
"we should go to our dorms and pack some stuff" said Connor.
"yeah good idea" said Bethany.
"we'll meet back here in 5 minutes" said Connor, and with that he took off around the corner. He approached his dorm and slowly peered inside the infected was no longer there. He sighed and walked into his dorm. He picked up his University bag and emptied out the contents on his bed. Text books and paper spread out across his bed. He looked for what to take. He opened his wardrobe and threw in some spare clothes. Two pairs of jeans and two shirts, he didn't plan on taking a lot. He closed the wardrobe and walked over to a drawer. He opened the drawer and picked up a watch. He placed the watch on his wrist and checked the time. 10:35. It was early. He opened his bag back up and threw in a couple of pairs of socks and underwear. He would only take the shoes on his feet. They would do for now. He picked up his phone and checked it, no messages and no calls.
"you'd think someone would try to contact me" said Connor.
"are you ready" said a voice from outside.
"yep just coming" said Connor. He zipped up his bag and made his leave. He looked back at his dorm room unsure if he would ever return. He returned to Ben's room to see the others all there carrying backpacks as well. Let's go said Ben. The group made their way outside to where Ben was parked. His car was still there, they could see several of the infected wandering about. They all sprinted for the car, it was a five-seater. Ben unlocked the car and threw the door open. He climbed inside and put the key in the ignition. The seats were all taken but there was still one more person Connor. He opened the trunk and climbed inside.
"this is going to rough, please drive carefully Ben" said Connor.
"I'll try" said Ben.
The doors were all shut, and Ben put the car into life. The car lurched forward and slowly made its way out. Once they cleared the parking area he sped up, eager to get back home with his family. Bethany looked out the window at the University as they left.
End of Chapter 1